Feb 4 2018
Monday. Cross country in the mist
In the morning, we divided the Brno group in two. I was to take charge of Brno A, the group with the faster girls.
It was pretty bad weather, temperature around zero and visibility about 50 meters. The pictures I show in this post are from Tuesday, when it was better weather.
In the morning, we skied up Praded Mountain and then continued on to Švýcárna.
We continued past Svycarna, then returned. The climb to Svycarna was long and steep, so we took a rest break with some tea inside the Svycarna hut.
In the afternoon, I took the girls to the straight part between the Hotel and Ovcarna, where we did some technical exercises to improve our skating technique. Then we returned to the hotel and hit the loops that were prepared there. These are great training loops. You can choose 2, 3, 4, and 5 km loops (which are in reality a bit shorter than their names suggest). We did a 5km loop with all the girls, and then we did a 5km with the fastest of the girls.
The President and I got ahead a bit during that first loop, so there was some time to take pictures.
Feb 4 2018
Tuesday – to the pass and back
Tuesday was predicted to be the brightest day of the week, so a good day to do a long run. We arranged with the Hotel to move our lunch time out to past two pm and got going. This 26km run is voluntary, and so I had only three girls with me, Iva, Lenka and Sasa.
While we were on our tour to the Pass of Cervena Hora (Cervenohorske Sedlo), the “slower” group skied up to the top of Praded mountain. They took this great picture:
We reached Cervenohorske Sedlo in under two hours. At this point, the main road crosses the mountains and we saw the first cars in a few days:
We had tea and soup at the hut and then turned around for the ski back. We were delighted to see some of the sights.
Strava Link
In the afternoon, the girls were relaxing and a small delegation of Masters rowers hiked back to Ovcarna to have some fruit dumplings and a beer there.
In the evening, we visited the sauna. It is nice to go from the sauna straight into the snow.
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